Major Ballot Measures

State Highlights

By one measure, Oklahoma is now the most Republican state in the nation. Senator John McCain carried it by a bigger margin, 65.6 percent, than any other.

Republicans also won a majority in the State Senate, giving them control of both chambers of the State Legislature for the first time since Oklahoma became a state in 1907.

Senator James M. Inhofe, a Republican who is one of the most vocal critics in Congress of the theory of global warming, won re-election to a fourth term, defeating State Senator Andrew Rice, a Democrat, and a conservative candidate who ran as an independent, Stephen P. Wallace.

During his campaign, Mr. Inhofe blamed the mortgage crisis on federal policies that, he said, forced banks to extend loans to people who could not afford them. As a solution to the economic crisis, he advocated renewing President Bush's tax cuts.

The only incumbent Democrat in Oklahoma's five-member Congressional delegation, Dan Boren, the son of a former Oklahoma governor, won re-election after a campaign in which he emphasized his membership in Congress's Blue Dog Coalition of conservative Democrats. SAM DILLON